Groundwork

Published by: Gnomon Press (Paperback 1979)

Published by: Gnomon Press (Hardcover 1979)

Included poems:

The Hollow

Blue Ridge

Fear

Plankroad

Huckleberry Bald

Appalachian Trail

Mountain Bride

The Flying Snake

Lost Flower

Real and Ethereal

Galacker: The Galax Gatherer

Sport

Otis

Snowlight

Death Crown

Canning Time

Burnoff

When the Ambulance Came

Slop Bucket

Walnutry

Baptism of Fire

Bean Money

Huckleberries

Reuben's Cabin

Upstairs at the Country Store

Wallowing

Bricking the Church

Tear Bottle

Burning the Hornet's Nest

Milksick Pen

Smokehouse Dirt

Blackberries

Pigeon Loft

Mountain Page

Zircon Pit

Secret Pleasures

Den Tree

Devil's Courthouse

Trash

Praying Through

Related media:

Mountain Bride (poem)

Praise for Robert Morgan:

Robert Morgan's fiction is "about people who have a deep sense of themselves, who were not created by a huge and complicated society but by a small, simple one in which individual character sprouted slowly and in trial bloomed... wise, eloquent."

— New York Times Book Review

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"Reads like a fireside chat, a storyteller's story, frozen in time on the printed page."

— Southern Living

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One of Robert Morgan's chief claims on our attention is the backbone he puts into the backcountry lore that grounds his work, the stately proprieties and meditative gravity he hews out of the hardscrabble folkways of his native Blue Ridge Mountains... His is a fine-grained, self-implicating intelligence that can span the intricacies of both pine resin and pantoums.

— Poetry

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